New Year Eve

It is chilly today. The prediction is to freeze tonight. At 6:00 pm Ethel and I went to our neighbors for a great New Years Eve dinner. Gale even made Baked Alaska for desert. We got home about 8:45 pm. We tried to get the NEW YEARS EVE celebration in NYC but couldn't find it. So here I am to say"HAPPY NEW YEAR to All". May God be with us to have a great 2015 year.

Some drizzle

Today we had breakfast,no pain. We left the house at 9:20 the sun was out when we arrived at Cost-Co we had to wait until 10:00 am to stand in line to return a purchase and the wind was real cold and no sun. We went in to do our shopping and come home. We waited until about 1:00 pm for Alden to arrive. When he arrived we had B.B.Q Chicken, baked potatoes & mixed veggies. Then Alden started to install a new toilet in the master bath room. He had some problems and had to go back to home depot for parts 2 times. For dinner we had pizza and Alden had cookies and ice cream also. So it was about 8:00 pm when Alden got everything cleaned up and in his car and left to go home. I sure thank Alden for his work. Ethel just came and told me she can't figure out how to do the Blog for today so I told her to wait until tomorrow and I will help her. Tonight my hip was painful again.

CHRISTMAS PICTURES 2014

Today we went to Church, a young girl played Christmas carols on the HARP she did a beautiful job.
It was very cold so we did not go out for lunch. Instead we came home and watched the Chargers play the Chief's, not a good game, Charger's lost 19-7.
I am posting some Christmas pictures.

      

                 

                                    

                                                                                   

                                                     

           
                                                        Flowers are from our neighbor

Merry Christmas

Yesterday I drove down to Alden's in the afternoon and had a good time with just Alden's family. We watched a movie of Christmas. Opened some presents and I stayed over night at Alden's. Ethel's grandson Sam picked her up to go to Chad's. for over night. Christmas morning more gifts were opened and time with Aunt Jean and uncle Jim. Later on Sam brought Ethel over to Alden's then Gina's family arrived and we had a great dinner prepared by Gina & Alden. Then there was McKenna's friend Jacob who arrived. Ethel & I decided to drive back to Rancho Barnarado before it got dark. We got home and relaxed watching News and our game shows. We had oyster stew and then we went to our rooms for the evening. I just got settled at the computer when Alan called from Taiwan to wish us Merry Christmas. The weather is a bit chilly tonight.

Getting ready for Christmas

This morning I got up with that pain in my hip and leg again. We had planned to go to Cost-Co to shop but put it off as when I get that pain I can hardly walk. Well we went to Cost-Co to get gas and went to get our hair cut, then we needed bread and a couple apples so I drove to Albertson's and dropped off Ethel to purchase the apples and bread and I have never seen the parking lot so loaded, I had to drive around and around so I just waited for someone to leave to park. Well I got out of the car and went in the store to tell Ethel where I parked, I couldn't find her so I decided to just stand in the parking lot to wait for her. We got home and had left over potato soup and we made scalloped potato's to go with salmon and mixed veggies for dinner as we were going to the club for Rummy-Q for the afternoon.Tonight I made cranberry jello to take to Alden's.

Alden called while we were at Rummy-Q and he asked me to drive down to their place tomorrow afternoon and stay over night and be there for Christmas. Ethel is going to Chad's with Sam Christmas Eve and she will come over to Alden's Christmas morning. I will try to take some pictures to post next time.

Merry Christmas Everyone

What a game

No blog yesterday, we were watching a Christmas story on the Hallmark Channel so we turned to the Chargers game at about half time. But now I will say it was a great game for the Charger's. I told Ethel even in the overtime that the Chargers can win and sure enough they WON. Even Ethel is getting into it. Ethel never watched a football game before until I got her into it and I tried to explain the game to her. Well I never played card games before until she got me into cards and Rummy-Q. Now I enjoy playing cards and Rummy-Q. So now I guess we are even. After all what is retirement about? We need to have a good time and something to do. YA!!!

Ethel's Birthday

Happy Birthday Ethel for Breakfast we had Risen Bran Cereal Ethel had hot water, I had hot Coffee from Lovely and of course our daily medication. We went to ceramics and I worked on a Chinese tea pot and Ethel worked on 3 tea cups which I am doing for Regina. I hope to get done before Alan comes so he can take to Regina. Of course I wish I could deliver it to her. Then we came home and got ready to go to Chin's for lunch with the ladies from the art club. We went to pick up Gerry. The food was very good, when Alan comes we might go for lunch there. It is in the Sprouts shopping center. We had a very nice get-together, only 6 of us.

Christmas Party 2014 of the art class

Getting ready for Christmas

We picked up Mary and dropped her off at the Club then we went to to the Banks and returned to the club to play cards. Some of the ladies gave us Christmas cookies. With Christmas and New Years falling on Thursdays we will not have Cards for two weeks. 

This is the table when we had the neighbors over Monday for snacks and hot Cider

This is our patio decorated for Christmas

Very Slow Day

Last night it rained and had a pool of water beside the patio. We had no activities today so we just relaxed and played Rummy-Q and listened to Christmas carols reading etc. We had Potato soup for lunch and pizza for dinner, we also had Fruit Cake from Cost-Co, UM !!!! GOOD.

Day for Neighbors

This morning we went to the ceramic class, then we went to Von's for a few groceries. We returned home to prepare for a little get together with our neighbors. Prepared a few snacks like Hot Apple Cider and chips & dips, Christmas cookies and fruit cake while sitting around the table for conversations. It was a very nice get together but we missed Illene as she was not feeling well.

Christmas activities

Last night we went to the Club Christmas party. It was very nice. The entertainment was supper which consisted of 7 ladies and 4 men. The men's dress was black suits with white shirts and black bow ties, the ladies was silver tops and black dressy pants. They did a excellent job of singing and preforming. To close they came to the tables and we all joined in with Christmas Carols. Each table was set up with black tablecloths and center pieces. They served cake and pie with coffee or tea.
Today we went to Church, then to Co-Co's and watched the Chargers they lost.

               

                         This picture is our Christmas party with our group of 8 card players

                   
                              This is my winnings from the Ceramic Christmas potluck party

BACK TO BLOGGING

A lot has happened since I last Blogged as my computer had a hangover and didn't want to respond. On 10,28,2014 Ethel & I were in the progress of choosing a HMO. We were considering SCAN so we went to the site where the Doctor's Offices and other medical services are located for SCAN. So we left the house at 9:00 am to check out Scrips Medical building. There is a 5 story parking garage so we parked in the disabled space with the elevators just a few steps in front of out car. Oh that was great, we got in the elevator and pushed the button thinking we would get to the medical offices but NO we just kept entering the parking garage. Then a lady asked where we wanted to go, when we said we wanted to check out the medical building, she said "follow me" so she led us to the building behind the park lot elevators. Well we were well pleased with what we saw. They had a directory with all the different kinds of medical services and Doctors. So we were pleased as the next day were were to sign up for SCAN. We returned to our car and wanted to EXIT the parking garage. We saw the EXIT sign and went that way but kept going up and kept driving until we arrived on the top floor of the parking garage and decided to make a U turn to go down. Finally we made an EXIT. We were too early to go to Cost-Co so we went to get gas. Then we went to Cost-Co and purchased a new telephone system as our old phone doesn't accept messages. Then I went to plug in the NEW PHONES and found out there was suppose to be a filter on the phone wire and when I tried to use the computer I couldn't get on line as there was a "Certificate Error" will I tried to figure that out and I couldn't so I called Gina and they were coming over Sat. so will see if that can be fixed. This all happened on 10.28,2014 and so my computer was down until yesterday 12/12/2014.
Then in the afternoon we went to the Club and played Rummy-Q.
Well that was our day.